Civil protection teams and volunteers joined forces to retrieve the bodies of slain Palestinians from the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip.
“We are resuming work after a 100-day break,” said Ahmed al-Kahlout, head of Gaza’s Civil Protection Agency.
He said the exhumed bodies will be examined, recorded and identified before they are buried.
Kahlout said civil protection teams and volunteers are working with limited equipment and in extremely difficult conditions, AA writes.
“The Israeli army destroyed the drills, bulldozers and machines of our agency,” he added.
Eid Sabah, one of the chiefs at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, said the Ministry of Health has enough information on the number of those under the rubble.
“Work has begun to exhume the victims and bury them in the planned cemeteries. There are about 10,000 bodies that are still missing under the rubble in different parts of the Gaza Strip,” Sabah said.
In violation of the interim ruling of the International Court of Justice, Israel continues its attack on the Gaza Strip, in which at least 34,488 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since October 7 last year, and 77,643 people have been wounded.
